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Myrmix and Lefteris – the VERA shipwreck

22/11/2021 24/11/2021 By Nikolaos Sidiropoulos
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In 480 BC, a fleet assembled by Persian King Xerxes headed south on a revengeful second attempt at conquest of the Greek mainland. However, in the strait between Skiathos and Pelion, at least three invading ships were dashed on a mostly submerged reef known then as Myrmix. Xerxes ordered the construction of a beacon

Flat Iron Collier CHRISTOFOROS

29/11/2018 22/04/2020 By Nikolaos Sidiropoulos
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The shipwreck of the Flat Iron Collier CHRISTOPHER was caused by an inflow of water while in the Sporades in 1983. It had previously been shipwrecked as the THOMAS HARDIE in 1950 and sold in 1968 to be renamed the BIRLING. In 1975, it was sold and renamed the EPIC and in 1976 it was sold again and ended up in the Greek seas as the CHRISTOPHOROS….